Forsaken Mission

Forsaken mission

With the mission changing soon to fit into Kixeye's new cycle of targets, its time to get as many prizes as you can during this time. Kixeye has said that the new targets will reflect the current drac mines and the raid targets from the last cycle. With the majority of the damage being from Ballistic and Radioactive sources, the best tech to use is Allow Armor CL. 

With Allow Armor CL being reached in tier 2-4, it provides much needed defense against this two damage types. 

The best couple ships to use for the new mission are found in the foundry, with all of them having 50+ defenses to radioactive and ballistic damage. Lets look at mock builds using only what is found in the forsaken mission relative to the tiers, i.e. dreadnought tier 1, vindi tier 2 and so forth. 

Dreadnought

https://www.dahippo.com/bp/ship/#!40JIA1O1O1O1O09111S0U37373737373737370JIA1O1O1O1O09111S0U37373737373737370JIA1O1O1O1O09111S0U37373737373737370JIA1O1O1O1O09111S0U37373737373737370JIA1O1O1O1O09111S0U3737373737373737dC 

The fleet has okay speed, but we don't anticipate any mortars within the new strongholds, as there are none in the mines. Good defenses for ballistic and radioactive type weapons, and awesome reload. With rank the reload gets only better, along with the turning speed. With a 3 day build, it'll only take two weeks to build a full fleet of these. 

Vindicator 

https://www.dahippo.com/bp/ship/#!405CF1P1P14090U2T113737373737373705CF1P1P14090U2T113737373737373705CF1P1P14090U2T113737373737373705CF1P1P14090U2T113737373737373705CF1P1P14090U2T1137373737373737dC 

This fleet is meant for siege only, being able to survive longer than the dreadnought, although it lacks one weapon slot. I keep using the siege cannons as they provide a bonus to the speed, weigh less, build fast, and shoot fast. Again, we won't suspect to find any ships or mortars in the new strongholds, based upon the mines so far... 

Crusader 

https://www.dahippo.com/bp/ship/#!406G01P14144060346A0UAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAK06G01P14144060346A0UAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAK06G01P14144060346A0UAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAK06G01P14144060346A0UAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAK06G01P14144060346A0UAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKdC 

With a hell of a lot better defenses, only getting better as you retro the crusader. With the builds only getting longer from here, it still shows. With the Reaver cannon being available in Tier 3, it is a lot better than the standard siege cannon. 

With better damage, range, reload, salvo, splash, bonus damage, and providing bonus armor, the earth shaker cannon is greatly better than the standard Siege Cannon S. 

Centurion 

If you have reached the centurion in the foundry, you have a choice of either using it or Punishers. Punishers are not available in the foundry however, and can be obtained only from the past raids, however the two ships are very similar indeed. The main difference being the Centurion special field that lowers splash damage. There are many builds that work well with the Centurion, as it can be used exactly like the punisher in mines and forsaken missions to come.